We are promised the results of an independent review at tonight’s council meeting. https://chatnewstoday.ca/2021/09/07/third-party-review-of-invest-medicine-hat-procurement-scandal-to-be-completed-by-oct-4/ I fully expect the review will show no legal wrongdoing. After all they changed the RFP so that city employees could bid on it, something that is fishy in itself. Let’s see what it says ethically. Current council, City manager Bob Nicolay and IMH staff all refuse to admit

In 2016, the general manager of NGPR (Natural Gas and Petroleum Resources) produced a business plan called Return to Profitability It states “Proposed NGPR Business Plan and support for NGPR to spend up to $30 million for Growth Strategy purposes in the 2017-2018 budgets to generate new income sources from oil and gas field discoveries....It is recommended through the Administrative Committee and Energy and Utilities Committee that City Council directs NGPR to: a) Adopt the p

Million Dollar CAO Capital Contingency Fund Reduced to a Mere $500k for 2019-2022, How Ever Does He Cope? (Btw, there is also a Council Infrastructure Contingency Fund, for the same amount.) In the 2017/2018 Business Plans the CAO and Council Contingency Funds were funded at one million dollars. EACH. Here’s how they explain it. “Implications & Justification This is a tangible capital asset budget for miscellaneous capital expenditures of a lower value. This will remove the r